
Hairpin
- Chinese name
- 簪
- Pinyin
- Date
- Qing Dynasty
- Medium
- Pearl, Kingfisher feather, Amber
- Dimensions
- length 26.4 cm; width 6 cm
- Accession no.
- 1978.428.1
- Collection
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Techniques
This is a hairpin in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, dated by the museum to the Qing Dynasty. The recorded medium is metal, amber, pearl, feathers. Its recorded length is 26.4 cm long. Accession number 1978.428.1, gift of Shoji Yamanaka, in memory of Alan Priest, 1978.